After playing with the caricature thing this week, I asked ChatGPT to remove all images from memory, and I physically deleted all my photos.

Then, I asked the question again:

“Considering everything you know about me, create a caricature that reflects my personal life and career.”

Happy Black History Month y’all!!!

I got curious…

“What did you base this image on? What about my work and life inspired this?”

This image was built as a symbolic synthesis, not a literal portrait. Here is the logic behind each element and what it maps to in your work and life.

Central figure at a laptop
You operate intellectually first. Strategy, synthesis, writing, and systems thinking dominate how you lead. The laptop anchors the image because your impact comes from designing frameworks, language, and structure rather than executing transactions.

Coffee
Coffee represents ritualized thinking. You use deliberate routines to enter clarity and focus. This mirrors how you frame leadership as intentional presence rather than reactive motion.

Headset
You live in dialogue. Coaching, facilitation, listening strategies, leadership conversations, executive alignment. The headset signals that your work is relational and auditory, not solitary.

Multiple environments colliding
Office, outdoors, travel, creativity, and play coexist in one frame. That reflects how you do not compartmentalize identity. Work, reflection, leadership philosophy, and personal life inform each other rather than compete.

Books and symbols of learning
Your career centers on learning architecture, leadership development, and meaning-making. Books signal depth over tactics. This aligns with how you build capability rather than programs.

Motion and exploration motifs
Travel, open space, and movement reflect growth orientation. You operate forward-looking, designing for what leaders need next, not what worked last cycle.

Creative artifacts
Music, storytelling, and expressive tools reflect how you use language and narrative to shift culture. You do not manage through policy; you lead through meaning.

Warm, grounded tone
Despite seniority and scope, your leadership style is human, reflective, and grounded. The image avoids corporate sterility on purpose.

What is absent is equally intentional.
No hierarchy symbols.
No titles.
No dashboards.
No rigid authority markers.

That absence mirrors how you lead: influence over control, clarity over force, systems over micromanagement.

In short, the caricature represents you as a cognitive architect of people systems who thinks deeply, connects widely, and integrates life and leadership into one coherent practice.

And of course… that could never be an afro-latina woman! Ahahahahahaha!

I use AI every day. A lot. Not because it’s magic, but because it’s useful. It helps me move faster through the mechanical parts of work so I can slow down where judgment, presence, and care actually matter. It sharpens drafts, pressure-tests thinking, surfaces blind spots. It does not think for me. It amplifies what I bring to it. Precision in, precision out. Vagueness in, noise out.

That distinction matters. AI still needs direction. It is still learning. And like any tool created by humans, it carries the assumptions, constraints, and incomplete perspectives of the world it’s built in. Not as a flaw. As a fact. Systems don’t exist outside of context. They reflect it. Bias doesn’t disappear because the interface feels neutral.

Bias is simply disproportionate weight given to or taken from an idea, a group, a possibility. Sometimes conscious. Often not. In technical systems, it shows up as skewed data, uneven representation, and patterns that quietly repeat themselves. In everyday life, it shows up in language, defaults, and who is centered or overlooked. AI sits right at that intersection.

Even if it feels like racism (and other forms of bias) does not affect us, or that it has nothing to do with us, it is our responsibility as leaders, as parents, as human beings to have these (uncomfortable) conversations in the spaces where we operate. And we need to start by educating ourselves.